Bug 2461606 (CVE-2026-42035) - CVE-2026-42035 axios: Axios: Arbitrary HTTP header injection via prototype pollution
Summary: CVE-2026-42035 axios: Axios: Arbitrary HTTP header injection via prototype po...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-42035
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2463437 2463439 2463441 2463444 2463446 2463447 2463448 2463436 2463438 2463440 2463442 2463443 2463445
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Reported: 2026-04-24 18:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-07-01 11:02 UTC (History)
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2026:34160 0 None None None 2026-07-01 11:02:40 UTC

Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-04-24 18:01:49 UTC
Axios is a promise based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js. Prior to 1.15.1 and 0.31.1, a prototype pollution gadget exists in the Axios HTTP adapter (lib/adapters/http.js) that allows an attacker to inject arbitrary HTTP headers into outgoing requests. The vulnerability exploits duck-type checking of the data payload, where if Object.prototype is polluted with getHeaders, append, pipe, on, once, and Symbol.toStringTag, Axios misidentifies any plain object payload as a FormData instance and calls the attacker-controlled getHeaders() function, merging the returned headers into the outgoing request. The vulnerable code resides exclusively in lib/adapters/http.js. The prototype pollution source does not need to originate from Axios itself — any prototype pollution primitive in any dependency in the application's dependency tree is sufficient to trigger this gadget. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.15.1 and 0.31.1.

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2026-07-01 11:02:33 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9

Via RHSA-2026:34160 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:34160


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